Free guide for wall hanging and/or wool ornament with lambs made of yarn

On this page, we show you how to make a lovely wall hanging and/or ornament with cute lambs. You can choose whether you want to hang your lambs on a round stick or mount them on an ornament. The ornament is an ideal homemade maternity gift. The lambs are made of cardboard and wool yarn, which gives them a sweet and woolly look.

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Du skal bruge:

• 1 Round stick for hanging (we used 1 round stick in birch, 30 cm long and 16 mm in diameter - the pack contains 3 pieces)
• And/or 1 hanging ornament (we used 1 wooden ornament with a diameter of 30 cm.)
• 5 skeins of Infinity Hearts Snowdrop Wool yarn (we used the following colours: 01 Off- white, 32 Brown, 33 Mix Black, 36 Mix Brown, 37 Mix Light Grey)
• 4 pieces of cardboard in different colours (we used Fantasy Cardboard from Paper Line in the following colours: Grey, Cream, Dark Brown, Sand)
• Felt balls of 10 or 20 mm. (we used 20 mm felt balls in assorted natural colours) 

In addition, you will need:

• Pencil or a marker
• Scissors
• Wood glue (if you choose to make the ornament)
• Needle
• Eraser

1) Draw the outline of a lamb. If you prefer to do so, print out this picture, cut it out and use it as a template. You can also put a piece of light cardboard on the screen with the picture and draw from there. The lamb should be about 7 x 8 cm:

2) Cut out the lamb:

3) Use your template to draw 6 lambs in the colour mix you want:

4) Cut out your 6 lambs. Erase any remaining pencil lines that you have cut:

5) Take one lamb and the colour of yarn you think best suits it. Tie one end of the yarn around the lamb:

6) Twist the yarn around the lamb until it is suitably "woolly". Cut the yarn about 50 cm from the lamb:

7) Fasten the string by tying a knot on the back of the lamb. Check if the lamb hangs straight when it is placed:

8) Put a needle on your yarn end and stick the needle through 1 felt ball in your desired color:

9) Wrap the yarn around your stick and put the needle through the felt ball again. Remove the needle and wait to cut the rest of the string:

10) Make 5 more lambs in the same way. Combine the colours of the cardboard, yarn and felt balls as you like!

11) Choose the one of your Snowdrop yarn colours that you want to use for the hanging itself. Wrap the yarn around one end of the round stick and tie it with a double knot. Cut a suitable length of yarn and tie it to the other end of the round stick:

12) Hang the project on your wall. Now you can start adjusting the strings so that the felt balls will hang on a straight horizontal line and the lambs as you want:

13) Tie a few knots under each felt ball, and hide the knots as best you can with the felt balls. Cut off all the ends, including those at the ends of the round stick:

14) Voila! Your project is now complete!

15) You can also choose to hang your 6 lambs on the ornament instead. If necessary, adjust the length of the strings again to fit. If the project will be used as a gift, you can buy a nice piece of fabric and sew a reusable gift bag for the ornament:

Enjoy!